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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1941

TOWARD HARA- KIRI “HE danger of a Pacific war is close. Japan will decide. Her choice will be determined largely by Nazi success: or failure on the Russian. and. itv fronts within She

next 10 days. Meanwhile she is. frantically sending troops and 25a forces to advanced positions, which . threaten not only " China and Russia but also Singapore and Manila. Americans cannot understand this situation. It seems too fantastic for belief. Don’t the United States Government anil people want peace? Don’t the hard-pressed British, Dutch and Russians want peace in the Pacific? Don’t the American and asso-. ciated armed forces and resources outnumber and outweigh Japanese strength so much that Japan would have little chance of victory in such a war? The answer to all of these questions is “yes.” Yet none of these facts has been sufficient to stop Japan i in her onward march of aggression. If sounds insane. It is insane. zz = # 2 os 8 F war comes it will not be because of a “breakdown in ‘peace negotiations,” as that phrase is usually understood. For there have been no genuine peace negotiations to break down. Japan has used the 10 days of the Kurusu | talks in Washington to cover a new large-scale military and ' naval concentration near Singapore and Manila—a breach of faith, clear, undenied, devastating. The issue has ceased to be what Japan has done in the past or what she might be willing to pledge for the future, even if there were evidence that she would pledge anything real. The immediate issue is what she is doing now. The chief chance of any peace opening now rests with the Russian and British armies. If Hitler fails to take” Moscow or to defeat the British in Libya, his Tokyo partners may draw back from the Japanese hara-kiri they are . now preparing.

LOW FLIGHT AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

EVEN countries, announces Hitler triumphantly, have joined the anti-Comintern pact. ~~ And what are the seven countries which have thus rallied about Hitler's Holy Crusade? Why, they are Denmark and Croatia, which have no government but that provided by the German military. They are Bulgaria, Rumania and Slovakia, which move only in a semblance of life at the pulling of Hitlerian strings. They are: Finland, caught in the whirlpool between Soviet and Nazi floodwaters without a rudder of her own. And the Nanking regime in Ching, nameless and lifeless puppet of Japan. This soaring flight into the’ ether of propaganda is supposed to impress a popeyed world. For us, it flies so low, as scarcely to get off. the ground at all.

THE ROAD TO CO-OPERATION. (CERT AINLY the best way for human beings to get along together is by voluntary co-operation. Philip: Murray for the C. I. O., and William Green for the A. F. of L., now urge adoption of this way by Labor, Industry and Government to insure uninterrupted production for defense. We hope it will come. The prospect for it will be bright when the big labor organizations and their leaders prove that they really want to practice what they preach. ~~ A. F. of L. unions fight jurisdictional wars with other

A. F. of L. unions at the expense of employers, the public |

- and the defense program. Mr. Murray denounces and tries to destroy the Government's machinery for voluntary mediation because one single finding, out of many, does not give a C. I. O. union what it demands. Through many years | the leaders of the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L.’ stubbornly refuse to co-operate with each other. They agree on one thing only—that the Government must place no restriction of any kind on organized labor's freedom to do exactly as it pleases. And now, when public opinion demands legislative remedies for intolerable abuses, they offer voluntary co-operation as a substitute. # 2 ” 2 8 8 WE believe that legislation is inevitable, If it comes now, it can be moderate and constructive! If it is delayed, and then forced as a result ‘of further abuses, it will be _ intemperate and destructive.. Its central purpose should be to make voluntary co-operation by Labor, Industry and Government possible, with Government representing the public interest and that interest alone.- " In the public interest, the Government will have to * make the rules of partnership. Neither Labor nor Industry can have unrestrained freedom. That is too much power to trust to human hands. Government should define snd protect the rights of Industry and Labor. Equally, it should define, and penalize, the abuse of rights by either. If Mr. Murray and Mr. Green are sincere in advocating voluntary co-operation, they should be encouraging, instead of reising, the efforts of Congress to do that job.

THE SANTA CLAUS SPIRIT

(GOVERNMENT publicity is sometimes marvelous to behold. : A hot-off-the-typewriter press release starts off with this manna-from-Washington lead: “The Office of Production Management today announced that the Southeast can have a bright Christmas in spite of the power shortage that has darkened show winOWS, theaters, hotels, tourist homes and streets since Nov. 1.” . The handout then goes on to’ explain that recent rains “have made it possible to increase the production of hydroelectric power. ; 12 the peagle in the TV: area want to be grateful fo or.

Business Menage

Fair Enough ©

By Westbrook Pegler

"Garment workers? . - ’| ¥ :

Let me talk to Dave Dubinsky.

‘Hiya, President. This Pegler. You

know, Bill Green’s friend. I got

news for you. I ought to

you dough for this. Your pal, Joe,

Fay, just got indicted up in Syracuse, for assault, second. Misdemeanor nothing. It's a felony,

good for five years. Stop laugh-

ing, will you? How can I tell you

-| about it with you roaring like that?

Well, it seems he socked this guy about the. same ‘as he belted you at the A. F. of L. convention in New Orleans last year when you offered the resolution to tick the hoodlums out of the union leadership and he took it as a personal affront. The guy’s name is H. Orville Warner and he was business agent of a couple of Rochester locals of the International Union of Operating Engineers. Well, on Aug. 20, when the A. F. of L. was holding its state conventign in Syracuse, Warner went into the meeting of “the Engineers and Fay, being one of

| the International V-P’s, was in the chair and’ this

Warner wanted Fay’s help, against some companies

that were mining non-union gravel for a defense vi

and Fay gave him the rough side of his iongle,

Warner walked out of the room to cool off. They're Going to Level on Him!

S80 YOUR HOODLUM pal followed him out and popped him and Warner's story is that he socked him from behind, or, anyway, one of his famous sneak punches that he is always throwing at guys with their hands in their pockets. So down goes Warner and they say Fay then gives him the shoe in the face. I have got two doctors’ reports here on my desk. They say “fracture of the right maxilla.”

Well, Warner seems to be a stand-up guy, so, when they tried to square it he said nothing doing, and when they threatened him if he wouldn’t withdraw his complaint, he got a police sergeant to walk in and tell them they don’t stand for any monkey business by outside talent. He has got a lawyer friend named Ray Fowler in Rochester, who just doesn’t like gorillas; so Fowler takes an interest in the case and Jesse Cantor, an assistant D. A. in Syracuse, gives it to.the Onondaga Grand Jury and they vote a bill. ; And so Thursday Fay showed up in court and pleaded not guilty and put up $1000 in $100 bills, but he has got to go back after the first of the year and they are going to level on him. No fix

He Could Fix It In Jersey

FOWLER SAYS WARNER went through hell One operation lasted two hours and they had to keep him under anaesthetic all day so they could drain the blood from his throat.

If this had happened in Jersey, of course, Fay :

could brush it off, because you know what a high roller he is over there with the Hague mob and the underworld. He gets around with some of the big respectables in. Newark, too, and did you know he has got a swell big home in the best part of Newark?

Incidenjally, Joe can’t claim he was drunk this

time. They say Le was sober and that makes it bad-

der. 1 suppose that William E. Maloney of Chicago, the international president of the union, will have to move in and do his stuff for his worthy vice president, but it probably ‘won’t be necessary for him to miss the racing season at the hoodlums’ horse

yard in Miami.

Will | See You Up There?

YOU CAN'T EXPECT him to detach himself from his stable of dashing ckargers, but it would be no trouble at all to arrange a whole series of those marvelous spontaneous testimonial dinners among the locals around the country and charge the poor guys $5 a ticket for a six-bit chicken dinner and present the rest to Brother Ray as a defense fund. Or they can just put the shake right on the poor dummies with an assessment and no foolishness about a dinner. I can’t wait to tell Bill Green about it. Bill went out to one of those spontaneous testimonials for Brother Maloney a while ago and Fay ‘was one of the principal speakers, And you don’t need to be told Green’s position on hoodlum Joe since Fay was invited to. Bill's big complimentary dinner for the foreign delegates of the International Labor Organization and Frances Perkins was there and you walked out and left the party flat, as a protest. Well, so long, Dave. Will I be seeing you at the trial in Syracuse?

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 29.—Just as possession of an airport is a first mark of a pv in alertness, the voice from the control tower of an airport is a mark of the port's efficiency. I want to point to the efficient and co us administration of the’ Washington

.National Airport by its manager,

John Groves, as an example for all other airports.

» ‘The other day I was circling a

rt about 35 miles from Washington at 3000 feet od calling through my plane’s

radio for permission to land. For some reason, no:

answer came from below. But from the busy Wgashe ington airport came the control voice, asking the port below me to tune in on my request. The busy Washington control tower had overheard me and had taken time and trouble ta help an air traveler 35 miles away. That is a sample of real air

courtesy. About Aircraft Engines

WHILE RUGGED AND STURDY, requiring overhaul only at periods ranging up to 700 hours of flight,

an aircraft engine is quick to show the effect of inex-

pert handling and control. Among the many instru-

ments and gauges for the pilot’s guidance is the |

thermometer which registers the temperatures of. the engine’s cylinder heads, which house the combustion flames and are the first places to overheat if an engine is running imperfectly. In some planes the carburetor mixture of gas and air is regulated automatically. In others, the pilot must attend to it. And he can burn out a piston head or ruin the engine by making the mixture too lean. The first sign of that shows on the thermometer, but

if that gauge isn’t working accurately trouble sneaks'|

up on you without warning. The higher you fly, the more rarefied the air. If the carburetor mixture is left at its sea level setting, the mixture becomes too rich at high altitudes, and the engine gets “rough”—vibrates and labors. The

mixture is made leaner by moving the carburetor air’ wo |

lever, alongside the throttle. How much to move that lever is the proble guide you, there is an instrument known as e ex-

haust gas analyzer, which indicates the completeness | of combustion. Readings on this analyzer, plus ‘tises | the

of temperature shown on. the therm

pilot what he must know. Just two little instruments | 3 out of the two dozen or more in the cockpit of a |

ITALIAN

—

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—"Voltaire.

PEGLER, HIS ADJECTIVES, SPACE ... AND ‘TRASH’

By “Wasted Time,” Columbus On Nov. 25, 1941, I copied the fol-

column: Miserable, fumbling, pa hands lers, | wretchedly, mob, racketeers, dictators, high-sign, quilty, crime,

contemtible, handouts, robbery, extortion, brutality, arrogant suppression, thugs, thieves, conspirators, Kremlin, rascals, traitors, flycops, viciousness, corrupting, foul, whimper, curs, dumb, row, appalling, frauds, clown, vile, greedy, slavedrivers, lash, cringing, ante-bellum,| wrung, grasp, audacious, rapacious; gang, monstrous, guts, lousy, and others quite as descriptive. All this evidently because he does not like the President, If anybody in this great land can write a half coulmn and use all these words without it being “trash” I will concede that he wins. ® 8 = : IF PRICES ARE HIGH, DON'T BLAME FARMERS

By Russell Snapp, Greensburg The editorials appearing rather frequently in The Times, relative to farm prices and the high cost of living, have become obnoxious to most farmers due to the ignorance shown by the writer of the subject he is trying to cover. Never was there a. time when prices of farm products were controlled by .the farmers themselves. The agricultural price system has always been controlled by & gang of speculators whose main object is to buy low and sell high. Therefore the blame for the high cost of living will have to be placed somewhere else due to the fact that the farmer is compelled to take what is offered and pay what is asked. “At the present time hogs are selling $2 per hundred weight less than they were 30 days ago, yet the price of pork prefiucts are higher today than they were then. There also was a time when: ‘bread retailed at half the price it is today, yet the price of wheat was no less than it is now. If other editorials on the high

lowing words from Pegiers half-| .

rotten, poison, pathetic, flabby, slobs, |

(Times reaclers are invited fo express their - views these columns, religious con- . troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have: a chance. Letters must be signed)

cost of living are to appear in The Times, I would suggest that the writer become more familiar with his subject. A closer study of the tax system coupled with the high tribute. drawn from the processor fand ‘retailer by the union racketeers ‘might i] a aon,

‘COMMUNISM HAS SAPPED PEOPLE OF MORALITY’ By Harrison Wiite, 218 E. St. Joe St.

The Great Leech Policy ‘of the world, or Colnmunism, and its support, is the only so-called fifth column in’ the United States today. Through subterfuge in Congress, it has denied the directing intelligence of the individual, and his initiative, ‘by attempting to set up the progress of the people through the initiative of government only and in so doing has sapped the. people generally of morality and virtue, leaving them in a generally just-don’t-care attitude. Then one Clyde P. Miller asks “What is wrong with Americans” when the response to the call for patriotism from our government becomes negligible. I believe Mr. Miller should think again. E » 2 2 : CURIOUS WORLD, VACUUM, . AND MR. BRADDICK By Claude Braddick, Kokomo An item in “Inside Indianapolis” the other day, calling attention to a misstatement by Ripley, brings fo mind the curious fact that although such misstatements are fairly common they are seldom challenged in the public prints. And. this despite the fact that some are so glaringly obvious that almost anyone should spot: them at once. That you: own william Ferguson (of “This Curious World”) is not

Side Glarices By Galbraith

modern, high-powered fighting plane. or airline trans- :

port—but all iwiportant. The more you explore the business of fiying, @ more it becomes apparent why Plicte ¢ cannot be overnight. The graduate of a mod

school knows as much about the technicalities of aircraft operation as the seasoned pilot, but he ean't |

make 1) uso of ihat Knowledge until he has season

| ing and experience, which takes time. iE

So They Say— ff

Sushi. $ to shop for a picture with the g car

A shelf paper¥for. hor Kitchen.~Thomas 5 Watoen. ary Stor she Shan when she’s shopping for collector,

immune is evidenced by his state- :

| That {In a cool cell

ment in the same ‘edition of The

Times that “Two-thirds of the lift of an airplane’s wings is produced]

the wings. The other third. from| presssure under the wings.” No doubt Mr. Ferguson has excellent authority for this. But truth is truth (and vice .versa) whether uttered by a Pol parrot or a solemn authority. Think for yourself. The, truth is that a vacuum, whether partial or complete, has no lifting power. All the lift is created ‘below the wings. "The ancients ° explained the rise of water in a suction pump (or syphon) by. saying, “Nature abhors a vacuum.” We now know the water is forced up by the pressure of the surrounding air. What the ancients had failed to observe was the significant fact that water will rise in a pump or syphon to about 32 feet— thus balancing the surrounding normal air pressure—and no further.. After that point, nature no longer “abhors a vacuum.” # # L3

“IT’S TIME TO GET OUR

OWN BOYS ON PAYROLL"

By J. P. MacCormack, Crawfordsville

The State Department of Public Welfare has just called for another nation-wide examination for the

bosition, that of an assistant administrator. What’s the matter with the State Welfare Board? Is it prejudiced against Indiana’s univer sities and colleges and Indiana’s training centers for social workers, public administrators and its general system of education? For four years or more, the State Welfare Department has been employing doctors, ‘psychologists,

* nurses, ‘social workers, child wel-

fare workers, personnel directors and other so-called “technicians” from eligible lists established through nation-wide : examinations.

our state welfare system and public institutions from other states. These jobs belong to the people of Indiana, who are educated in Indiana through . her. colleges, - and they should not .be distributed to government career workers of other

fessional adunhisiraiive. associations and lodges. If we don’t wake up- and insist that Indiana men and women be given positions ‘in our State Welfare Department, we're going to

.Jwake up one day to find ‘that all the department heads are residents|

of practically every union, but Indiana. |

families of taxpayers .and a slap in the face at Indiana's institutions of learning. .I think it’s time to get some of our own boys and girls on the payroll in i department,

TWENTY YEARS HENCE Twenty years hence my eyes may - STOW, If mot. quite dim, yet, rather so; Yet yours from others they shall

: Twenty years hence. Twenty years: hence, though it may be call'd to take a nap |

where thunder-clap Was ‘never .heard.

| hers breathe but. cer my arch of

: grass A not too sadly sigh’d “Alas!” : And I shall eateh, e's You sani pass,

That winged

: word. Tar ~Walter Savage

Landor (ims-1866

"DAILY THOUGHT He fag soweln to bis flesh ail :

by a partial vacuum created above|.

purpose of filling a high salaried |

It has been bringing people into|.

states and members of national pro-{

| chiefly due to

leurn?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The failure of Floyd Odlum to do any= “thing worth’ while preserve small business en in this . country was freely predicted by this column before the attempt started. It is nothing for which Mr. Odlum should be ‘either blamed or censured. He had a : ow sur Bg impossible task and: his ) only lack of wisdom was in un= -. dertaking it at all. The defense productive effort is. almost entirely in: The metal-working and chemi: cal industries. Here the great corporations are so much better fitted than the small ones that they can beat the little fellow in price, speed of production, and excellence -and accuracy of output. It is true that there is a certain amount of sub-contracting that can be done among smaller enterprises. There always has been. The large corporations are really ceriters of clusters of such small specialists even in peace] time. These sub-contracts have been multiplied to the advantage of this smaller class of operators. But when we go beyond this and attempt to make new clusters for new production on such a vast scale as the war effort, we are up against real difficulties. A certain amount of ‘this was done and an earnest - effort was made to use as much of the idle skills and machine capacity as possible, But when you add it all together, in comparison with the bulk of the

effort, it is only a drop in the bucket,

A Disastrous National Policy a

WHEN YOU GO outside the metal-working and chemical industries to the great mass of establishe ments for manufacture of normal items of consumpe tion for the civilian population there is virtually nothing that can be done if we continue our present policies of practically zero priority for that population, The reason for this unfortunate result is an entirely different one. It is that there is no material left over upon which these establishments can operate, In my opinion, this is a very short-sighted and disastrous national policy. It results from the une planned expansion of war production by the expendie ture of unlimited and almost uncounted billions with no certainty as to when or where, if ever, the proe duction is to be used. - However, that is not the point of this piece. What it is desired to emphasize here is that the inevitable result of this process will, in a very short time, wipe out much of independent business and leave almost our entire economy in the control of our greatest

| corporations. It is a reversal of the American policy

against monopoly and in favor of free enterprise since our beginning. + If this were merely accidental or an inevitable consequence -of the war there might be little to he said about it. Such is hoy the case.

It's Like Mussolini's Plan

- THERE HAS FOR years been a school of so-called thought among some of our advanced “thinkers” tha our most efficient production and quickest way to “production for use and not for profit” is to concene “trate control of industry in the hands of a few of our greatest and most efficient corporate groups and then to have the Government regulate them “in the common interest” almost to the point of management, It is not at all unlike Mussolini's “corporative state.” At its inception, its authors expected it to take ‘years to accomplish through constantly increase ing debt and deficit financing. The war has ade vanced progress toward that goal by decades. Pende ing bills for confiscatory taxes and for licensing of all business added to the growing government ownership or liens on new defense plants indicate how far it has gone on the regulatory sides just as the condi tions above discussed into which small enterprise is rapidly-.entering indicate how far it has gone on the other side. We .are witnessing a profound revolution in our politics and economy which is moving at hurricane speed, and most of us‘seem not to be even aware of it or, if we are aware, not to give a damn,

Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are mot Becessarily those of The Intisnagelis Tints, ?

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

improved because of their equality during the war effort are due for a tragic disappointment. A note of positive jubilation is coming from the headquarters of the Equal Rights movement, as ine stances of further notice-are cited, No one can deny that the news carries a thrill. Never be= fore has our sex been granted such equality with men in the dee fense of the homeland, and the account rendered by those women who have had new and strange respons sibilities thrust upon them constitutes a valiant rece ord and writes a new chapter in the story of feminine accomplishments, But all this will not enhance women's freedom by one iota unless afterwards some way can be found to give them equality of power in making the peace and building a new social order, That they will be given such authority I gravely doubt. They may be strong enough to take it by that time, but from past histery the chance of having it presented to thems seems slim.

It Depends On Economics a

THE FAULT LIES neither with men nor women, It springs from war, itself, whose aftermath is always disillusion, because it carries the seeds of tyrannies and worse oppressions and never yet has offered economic betterment to any group. - : The strangest words that fall from the lips of men and women are those expressions, so often heard,

‘which ‘accept as inevitable the coming of a super

colossal depression. We know why it comes and what its causes: are—yet steadily pursure those courses which speed its arrival. Women’s future status in the United States will } depend largely upon what economic conditions pres / vail here. The fact that we are asked to help with ® military efforts is no sign that we shall be honored with equal power later. After all, the pioneer fiothers * ‘handled their muskets well in emergencies, but they |

"had mighty little to say about political questions

afterward, So I cannot echo the pleasant words, “We do ree joice that even from this calamity good will come— “the of free womanhood, the gdod of free world.” If the world and women are ever freé, war will not have wrought the miracle. It must come, instead, from the intelligent use of our powers for keeping peace and sanity: alive upon the earth, for the

‘words are synonymous, *

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Q—What caused the defeat of James B. Carey, rite tional C. I. O. , for reof the United Electrical, "Radio an of ‘America? i A--Ascording to published statements, | yas Mr. Carey's outspoken Opticon to io 8

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